I can see one thing they'd want to add to the kernel for "on-demand" scanning, it would be an interface to get information about new files, or be able to snoop on file writes or something. Nevermind that it probably already exists (/[id]notify/), they would just need to publish under the GPL the tiny part that is to reside in the kernel and its interfaces. Just like you can implement a proprietary filesystem through Fuse if you want, there would be no GPL requirement on the userland part of the software.
but what happens if your favorite action films cost $50 million to make, but suddenly all of the customers have "digital content wants to be free" philosophies?
From your tone I take it that there must be some drawback that's escaping me?
Anyway, haven't you watched South Park? When you do that for music, Michel Jackson can't buy his 12th Ferrari. For movies, I assume the governator won't be able to buy his 12th Humvee, nor his reelection.
Not everywhere; the UK is not everywhere. It's strongly regulated in France; well, that is, until sarkonazi decides to "reform" this, as he has already hinted. And by "reform", I of course mean "fuck shit up to favor the rich & powerful at the expense of the people."
All phone call metadata, including location information, is going to be recorded and stored for six months beginning next tuesday.
That's bad alright, but *at least* there is some legal protection against unauthorized use of such data. As in, if someone illegally accesses this information, they risk prison time. Whether this is observed at all is another issue, but at least, it is at lest theoretically illegal, unlike in the US where your bank can basically know what brand of hemorroid cream you use.
It is technically illegal to keep web server log files with IP addresses, but everybody (including government) does it and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
It is somewhat illegal, but not actively policed, which would be quite a waste of time anyway. However, anti-piracy outlets have found the hard way that not respecting privacy laws has consequences: copyright infrigement lawsuits against p2p users have been lost by them because of this. Note that it's not that hard to be compliant, AFAIK: you just need to comply with the requirements of the law. Notify the authority that you are collecting data, notify the users of their right of access and modification, and that should be enough. I am not anal, though.
I have lots of cheap Ikea CFL bulbs, and most of them have their fluorescent coils inside of a strong, frosted, bulb-shaped, transparent plastic cover. They are certainly less dangerous than your average glass incandescent light bulb, unless you don't mind the wee ones eating glass shards or touching the wires inside a broken bulb.
Incandescent bulbs are still going to be very useful for places where lighting is needed, but rarely used; I'm thinking of cellars or parking boxes. If you factor in the actual usage rate in those places, it will take a few centuries to get your value back in electricity savings from the cost of going CFL. Additionnally, they will take some time to heat up, esp. in the cold, and will be worth stealing, unlike $.20 light bulbs. This last argument also applies to led lighting. Overall this kind of initiative is probably a good thing, but I've never seen this aspect addressed.
They will last longer alright, but they will emit more of their energy in the infrared region, and hence be much less efficient for the purpose of lighting. That's called black body radiation.
It tests for borderline cases which shouldn't happen in practice, such as invalid CSS. Who cares if your browser doesn't respect the standard for invalid data? I know I don't, and you shouldn't. I have a more pertinent question: why doesn't IE7 handle XHTML? It's been out for 8 years now!
While I don't favor this, you would be hard pressed to argue that the UN has had a very productive impact in most of the activities they have undertaken. And even when their stuff has worked, it has usually been with the US doing most of the legwork. The UN is mainly an organization that allows its members to say they support international partnerships, while performing relatively few useful functions of its own.
1. Of the 5 veto-bearing members, the US has been, BY FAR, the one to use it the most. In fact, in the last 20 years, IIRC, it has used it an order of magnitude more than any other member.
2. The US is / was for years late on his dues to the organizations, so much so that European countries had to pay for them. That's some way to do some legwork you've got here.
3. Of all the MANY functions the UN performs, of all the many international partnerships it covers, the US is the country to usually block it. You don't have to look very far, just this week the US was AGAIN blocking progress on global warming, ONE country against ALL others. The few exceptions are when its client states (Israel mostly), paid-for foreign governments (Bliar's, Howard's) or bought countries (various pacific island) support its scandalous, unilateral positions. Just look at ANYTHING regarding Israel. EVERY country in the world on one side, save for US+Israel voting against, UK abstaining. But you probably believe the neocon line, in which case, you're on the side of the war criminals.
IANAL, I'm not even American, and it seemed to me that nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself was quite clear and included that sort of thing, unless you interpret "to be a witness" ridiculously restrictively. And isn't the Bill of Rights supposed to be a collection of general principles rather than specific, restrictive directives?
Sarkozy is busy sucking Bush's cock, but he's not going to do anything, unless he wants to end up with a case of severed head like the roitelet he thinks he is.
The word they use for "regime" is actually the same/word/, and it has the exact same meaning in Farsi. Example of uses of the original word: "le régime de Vichy." Aren't we glad it's vanished from the pages of time? And last time I was in Auvergne, it did not seem to have been wiped off the map. So there you go. Classic disinformation. The difference between today's corporate media and Soviet media, is that in Soviet Russia, people/assumed/ the news was bollocks. Nowadays, most people are ignorant of it.
Transporting power is easily done. With modern power electronics, it's even easier than ever before. For example, over sufficiently long distances (continent-wide), DC is much more efficient than AC (look it up if you don't believe me). It used to be a pain to convert big voltages from one to the other; it's now done with off the shelf components.
And if it's such a big deal in the future, long lines could be made supraconductive. It's gonna be expensive, but when energy itself is expensive, it's not really an issue.
Today the problem with all this is the financing. This guy is a banker in the offshore wind business, and has lot to say about it. Wind *is* competitive, today, with all electricity sources but coal. It should be competitive with coal if externalities (i.e. the cost that's paid for by others, such as pollution) were taken into account. The problem is that the almighty and super smart free market is afraid of the 30+ years it takes to amortize a wind turbine. Yet once a wind turbine is set up, there is almost no maintenance, there is obviously no fuel to feed it.
Still, those days the market can barely see beyond the odd quarter or two. And not only are windmills long term investments, they also are big industry. They take quite some time to build, each; you can't really mass produce them yet. Turbine makers can't ramp up production on a whim. In particular, gov't subsidies and regulations in the US change almost year to year, and this has hampered adoption.
It's not filed with other fallacies because it is not a rhetorical device, unlike "strawman argument" for example; it is more akin to a logical paradox. And even if it were not as universal as some thought, it is still perfectly valid in this instance.
I've never understood why people would want a 3 column layout on the web.
Not only is this completely missing the point (people want 3 column layout, and they HAVE to implement them anyway with tedious gesticulations), but you're posting on a site with a 3 column layout, for fuck's sake!
Navigation on the right, content and comments in the middle, links and tools on the right. No, that's not a newspaper layout (which have more than 3 columns, in case you've never opened one!), and it makes at least some fucking sense.
The standard for infusing tea serves as the way to judge quality for the purpose of international trade. Long before computers were invented, people produced and traded tea. It's still a big business, which means there are big contracts involving large amounts of money, and there are gonna be disputes over quality and so on. ISO provides a standardized way to estimate this quality so the disputes can be resolved fairly. That's the point of the organization.
The US should get the fuck out, and pay reparations for the damage it's done. It should also try those responsible for war crimes and crime against peace. That's what it should do if it had any respect for the treaties it's signed since the end of WWII. Obviously, it won't.
The war against Lebanon wasn't directed at Hezbollah. Proof: Israel bombed Beirut, where there's no, and has never been any Hezbollah. It bombed *on purpose* (that's what those LASER GUIDED MISSILES the US sold do) the Beirut oil refinery, leading to the biggest oil spill in history in the mediterranean sea. It bombed most bridges in the south of Lebanon. Friends of mine got bombed in this war. They weren't part of Hezbollah. However, unsurprisingly when you have a couple more neurons working than your average likkudnik neocon, it made Hezbollah popular with those who used to oppose them in Lebanon. Mission accomplished! Or rather, war crime accomplished!
To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.
(Robert H. Jackson, chief US prosecutor at the Nurenberg trials)
Eric Prince needs cash. Eric Prince is a good Christian. A good republican. And he makes a living selling killer (mercenaries) to the US government, not saving lives. Who will pay campaign contributions to GOP Senators if Eric Prince doesn't make enough $$$?
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I can see one thing they'd want to add to the kernel for "on-demand" scanning, it would be an interface to get information about new files, or be able to snoop on file writes or something. Nevermind that it probably already exists (/[id]notify/), they would just need to publish under the GPL the tiny part that is to reside in the kernel and its interfaces. Just like you can implement a proprietary filesystem through Fuse if you want, there would be no GPL requirement on the userland part of the software.
but what happens if your favorite action films cost $50 million to make, but suddenly all of the customers have "digital content wants to be free" philosophies?
From your tone I take it that there must be some drawback that's escaping me?
Anyway, haven't you watched South Park? When you do that for music, Michel Jackson can't buy his 12th Ferrari. For movies, I assume the governator won't be able to buy his 12th Humvee, nor his reelection.
Mars Express is currently orbiting Mars, and will be there to provide pretty pictures.
There's private video surveillance everywhere.
Not everywhere; the UK is not everywhere. It's strongly regulated in France; well, that is, until sarkonazi decides to "reform" this, as he has already hinted. And by "reform", I of course mean "fuck shit up to favor the rich & powerful at the expense of the people."
All phone call metadata, including location information, is going to be recorded and stored for six months beginning next tuesday.
That's bad alright, but *at least* there is some legal protection against unauthorized use of such data. As in, if someone illegally accesses this information, they risk prison time. Whether this is observed at all is another issue, but at least, it is at lest theoretically illegal, unlike in the US where your bank can basically know what brand of hemorroid cream you use.
It is technically illegal to keep web server log files with IP addresses, but everybody (including government) does it and there's nothing anybody can do about it.
It is somewhat illegal, but not actively policed, which would be quite a waste of time anyway. However, anti-piracy outlets have found the hard way that not respecting privacy laws has consequences: copyright infrigement lawsuits against p2p users have been lost by them because of this.
Note that it's not that hard to be compliant, AFAIK: you just need to comply with the requirements of the law. Notify the authority that you are collecting data, notify the users of their right of access and modification, and that should be enough. I am not anal, though.
I have lots of cheap Ikea CFL bulbs, and most of them have their fluorescent coils inside of a strong, frosted, bulb-shaped, transparent plastic cover. They are certainly less dangerous than your average glass incandescent light bulb, unless you don't mind the wee ones eating glass shards or touching the wires inside a broken bulb.
Incandescent bulbs are still going to be very useful for places where lighting is needed, but rarely used; I'm thinking of cellars or parking boxes. If you factor in the actual usage rate in those places, it will take a few centuries to get your value back in electricity savings from the cost of going CFL. Additionnally, they will take some time to heat up, esp. in the cold, and will be worth stealing, unlike $.20 light bulbs. This last argument also applies to led lighting.
Overall this kind of initiative is probably a good thing, but I've never seen this aspect addressed.
They will last longer alright, but they will emit more of their energy in the infrared region, and hence be much less efficient for the purpose of lighting. That's called black body radiation.
It tests for borderline cases which shouldn't happen in practice, such as invalid CSS. Who cares if your browser doesn't respect the standard for invalid data? I know I don't, and you shouldn't.
I have a more pertinent question: why doesn't IE7 handle XHTML? It's been out for 8 years now!
1. Of the 5 veto-bearing members, the US has been, BY FAR, the one to use it the most. In fact, in the last 20 years, IIRC, it has used it an order of magnitude more than any other member.
2. The US is / was for years late on his dues to the organizations, so much so that European countries had to pay for them. That's some way to do some legwork you've got here.
3. Of all the MANY functions the UN performs, of all the many international partnerships it covers, the US is the country to usually block it. You don't have to look very far, just this week the US was AGAIN blocking progress on global warming, ONE country against ALL others. The few exceptions are when its client states (Israel mostly), paid-for foreign governments (Bliar's, Howard's) or bought countries (various pacific island) support its scandalous, unilateral positions.
Just look at ANYTHING regarding Israel. EVERY country in the world on one side, save for US+Israel voting against, UK abstaining. But you probably believe the neocon line, in which case, you're on the side of the war criminals.
Are you trolling or what? What do you think?
Has to be air, doesn't it? 20% oxygen, from what I hear.
IANAL, I'm not even American, and it seemed to me that nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself was quite clear and included that sort of thing, unless you interpret "to be a witness" ridiculously restrictively. And isn't the Bill of Rights supposed to be a collection of general principles rather than specific, restrictive directives?
Sarkozy is busy sucking Bush's cock, but he's not going to do anything, unless he wants to end up with a case of severed head like the roitelet he thinks he is.
The word they use for "regime" is actually the same /word/, and it has the exact same meaning in Farsi. Example of uses of the original word: "le régime de Vichy." Aren't we glad it's vanished from the pages of time? And last time I was in Auvergne, it did not seem to have been wiped off the map. /assumed/ the news was bollocks. Nowadays, most people are ignorant of it.
So there you go. Classic disinformation. The difference between today's corporate media and Soviet media, is that in Soviet Russia, people
Transporting power is easily done. With modern power electronics, it's even easier than ever before. For example, over sufficiently long distances (continent-wide), DC is much more efficient than AC (look it up if you don't believe me). It used to be a pain to convert big voltages from one to the other; it's now done with off the shelf components.
And if it's such a big deal in the future, long lines could be made supraconductive. It's gonna be expensive, but when energy itself is expensive, it's not really an issue.
Today the problem with all this is the financing. This guy is a banker in the offshore wind business, and has lot to say about it. Wind *is* competitive, today, with all electricity sources but coal. It should be competitive with coal if externalities (i.e. the cost that's paid for by others, such as pollution) were taken into account. The problem is that the almighty and super smart free market is afraid of the 30+ years it takes to amortize a wind turbine. Yet once a wind turbine is set up, there is almost no maintenance, there is obviously no fuel to feed it.
Still, those days the market can barely see beyond the odd quarter or two. And not only are windmills long term investments, they also are big industry. They take quite some time to build, each; you can't really mass produce them yet. Turbine makers can't ramp up production on a whim. In particular, gov't subsidies and regulations in the US change almost year to year, and this has hampered adoption.
It's not filed with other fallacies because it is not a rhetorical device, unlike "strawman argument" for example; it is more akin to a logical paradox. And even if it were not as universal as some thought, it is still perfectly valid in this instance.
Not only is this completely missing the point (people want 3 column layout, and they HAVE to implement them anyway with tedious gesticulations), but you're posting on a site with a 3 column layout, for fuck's sake!
Navigation on the right, content and comments in the middle, links and tools on the right. No, that's not a newspaper layout (which have more than 3 columns, in case you've never opened one!), and it makes at least some fucking sense.
The standard for infusing tea serves as the way to judge quality for the purpose of international trade. Long before computers were invented, people produced and traded tea. It's still a big business, which means there are big contracts involving large amounts of money, and there are gonna be disputes over quality and so on. ISO provides a standardized way to estimate this quality so the disputes can be resolved fairly. That's the point of the organization.
Worse than what? Worse than now? Is that possible?
At least I have to give it to you: your comparison of 1930's Germany with today's US is spot on.
The US should get the fuck out, and pay reparations for the damage it's done. It should also try those responsible for war crimes and crime against peace.
That's what it should do if it had any respect for the treaties it's signed since the end of WWII. Obviously, it won't.
Proof: Israel bombed Beirut, where there's no, and has never been any Hezbollah. It bombed *on purpose* (that's what those LASER GUIDED MISSILES the US sold do) the Beirut oil refinery, leading to the biggest oil spill in history in the mediterranean sea. It bombed most bridges in the south of Lebanon.
Friends of mine got bombed in this war. They weren't part of Hezbollah. However, unsurprisingly when you have a couple more neurons working than your average likkudnik neocon, it made Hezbollah popular with those who used to oppose them in Lebanon.
Mission accomplished! Or rather, war crime accomplished! (Robert H. Jackson, chief US prosecutor at the Nurenberg trials)
... if the US wasn't making more money than both countries in the oil for food program.
Eric Prince needs cash. Eric Prince is a good Christian. A good republican. And he makes a living selling killer (mercenaries) to the US government, not saving lives.
Who will pay campaign contributions to GOP Senators if Eric Prince doesn't make enough $$$?
They're resisting an occupation, it is not just their right, it is their DUTY to resist a foreign occupation.
Don't like it? Just get the fuck out.